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	5 Technology Security Myths, Busted Think you can hide behind the privacy of an "unlisted" cell phone number? Think again. Maybe you believe you don't need security software on a Mac or iPad. You'd swear that Firefox is the safest browser in town. Wrong on both counts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! In this Issue Windows needs a built-in PDF viewer, argues researcher Erasing Your Digital Tracks on the Web Are you ready for these Internet security threats? New cyber attacks more malicious than Love Bug: Symantec Security issues? Try SQL Server Agent Proxies… Symantec encryption buyouts raise open source, overlap questions An information security blueprint, part 1 After verdict, debate rages in Terry Childs case WHITE PAPER: Radware Rethinking Application Security Hacker motivation has changed from gaining fame to financial gain. Cyber crime activities now employ a new level of network attacks, which go undetected by standard network-security tools. This paper discusses the changing threat landscape and how you can protect your business from emerging threats. Learn More Windows needs a built-in PDF viewer, argues researcher Microsoft should add a basic PDF viewer to Windows to help protect users from the spike in attacks exploiting bugs in Adobe's Reader, a security researcher said. Read More Erasing Your Digital Tracks on the Web The Internet never forgets. Search engines crawl and index every last byte of information available on the Web; and once a piece of information goes online, some digital echo of it is virtually guaranteed to persist on a server somewhere. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Understanding the Value of Managed Security UTM Solutions This Yankee Group paper describes why multiple security layers are needed to achieve comprehensive and cost-effective security solutions. Learn More Are you ready for these Internet security threats? Symantec just released its latest annual Internet security threat report and it shows that hackers and attackers are more prolific than ever. Learn about the areas where your enterprise is most vulnerable, as well as what new threats emerged in 2009. Read More New cyber attacks more malicious than Love Bug: Symantec A decade after the Love Bug virus attacked millions of computers worldwide and put the Philippines in the IT world map in a negative way, computer security experts have noticed that today's computer attacks are more malicious than the original computer security threat. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Security issues? Try SQL Server Agent Proxies… In the good old days of SQL Server, all we had to do was make our service account a member of the local administrators group and we were all set. Of course, those days have gone and that practice is now rightly regarded as a security risk of elevated proportions. The SQL Server setup.exe will now give your ordinary domain user account the bare minimum permissions in order to run the service – nothing... Read More Symantec encryption buyouts raise open source, overlap questions Symantec's announced acquisitions Thursday of data encryption specialists PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies have industry watchers wondering which products will stay and go, and how open source PGP will fare in the wake of the buyouts. Read More An information security blueprint, part 1 The recent the Hydraq attacks were the latest example of just how radically the Internet threat landscape has changed over the past few years, and how vulnerable companies and their information stores are to cyber attacks. The attackers were not hackers, they were criminals attempting to steal intellectual property. Hydraq is an example of how cybercrime has evolved from hackers simply pursuing public notoriety to covert, well-organized attacks that leverage insidious malware and social engineering tactics to target key individuals and penetrate corporate networks. Many of today's attacks are highly sophisticated espionage campaigns attempting to silently steal confidential information. This should raise the alarm for companies of all sizes and across all industries, as information is a business' most Read More After verdict, debate rages in Terry Childs case The guilty verdict in the case of former network administrator Terry Childs is evoking mixed responses within the industry. Read More
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